Interactive Technology and Smart Education (ITSE)
Call for Papers:
“Learning in the Information Society”
Learning and teaching in higher education has been undergoing many changes 
over the last few years.  As the Information Society becomes more and more 
of a reality, learning and enabling technologies are considered as key 
elements that will shape the world in the 21st Century.  Thus, papers are 
invited for a Special Issue of the Interactive Technology and Smart 
Education to discuss how the innovative use of up-and-coming educational 
technologies might help learners to achieve their full potential.
Overview:
Despite some spectacular e-learning failures in recent years, e.g. the 
British government's “e University”, educational technologies have 
continued developing and have made advances in several learning 
paradigms.  These new learning paradigms appear as new ways to deal with 
the old traditional learning concepts and philosophies throughout the 
widespread of technical gadgets and approaches.  In fact, the current 
generation of high school children and young adults are now really 
familiar with a whole range of devices such as Bluetooth mobiles, digital 
cameras, and MP3 music players such as the iPod, which has ensured their 
acceptance of digital technology in a way that their predecessors did not.

Research indicates that despite earlier e-learning setbacks, with the 
relevant planning, e-learning partnerships can be successful.  
Nevertheless, the question as to how teaching and learning can benefit 
from these new information technologies and environments and how academic 
staff can keep pace with the ever-changing technology needs to be 
addressed.  The guest editors of this edition of ITSE are seeking good 
quality submissions which detail empirical research that is likely to 
change the way that educational technologies are used within the education 
sector.
Themes for papers:
• Curriculum Content Design & Development
• Evaluation and Assessment of Learning Environments
• Collaborative Learning in the Information Society
• Web-based Learning Communities
• Organisational Issues  
• Perspectives for Learning within the Information Society

In particular, in this special issue we seek a number of full papers and 
colloquium pieces in order to draw together empirical work that illustrate 
the way forward for those academics that have not yet engaged in these new 
modes of teaching and learning.
Submission
Please contact the ITSE Special Issue Guest Editors with submissions and 
queries:
Pedro Isaias [log in to unmask]
Maggie McPherson [log in to unmask]
 
SUBMISSIONS & NOTES FOR AUTHORS
Important Dates:
Deadline for submissions 11 November 2005
Notification of review process 9 December 2005
Final version to be received  9 January 2006
Publication  During 2006


Submission Guidelines
1 Papers should be submitted to Pedro Isaias on: [log in to unmask] 
or Maggie McPherson on: [log in to unmask] with a copy emailed 
to "[log in to unmask]" with a covering email clearly staring the name, 
address (including the email addresses) and affiliation of all authors.  
Paper submissions are accepted in either PDF or Word formats. Other 
formats are not acceptable.
2 Papers should ideally not exceed 10,000 words in length.  The 
Guest Editors should be consulted before submitting a paper which far 
exceeds this length.
3 After the review process is completed, you will be advised of the 
outcome.  If your paper is accepted for publication subject to a 
satisfactory completion of some revisions, you'll be invited to submit the 
revised paper.  This will be checked by the editors, and if they are 
approved, you will finally be asked to provide the following items (to 
enable typesetting your paper): a final copy of the revised paper file as 
a Word file, AND as a PDF; plus a separate image file for each figure (as 
jpg, gif or tif formats), and a biography of up to 100 words for each 
author.

Peer Review
1 The journal operates a peer review process, ensuring anonymity for 
the referees.
2 All papers meeting the criteria for submission (below) will be 
subject to a fair and unbiased peer review.
3 The Editors reserve the right to request that revisions be made to 
papers prior to publication, or to reject papers on the following grounds:
i. The paper is not sound.
ii. The paper has not been revised satisfactorily.
iii. The paper does not meet the aims and scopes of the journal.
iv. The paper contains other inadequacies (i.e. in presentation).
Preparation
1 Papers must be submitted using good quality English, having been 
carefully checked for errors and inconsistencies before submission. Since 
this is an international publication, please proof-read carefully the 
English language in your paper (syntax, semantics, punctuation, etc….) to 
make sure it reads well. Even if the paper is technical, you must use a 
language that easy to understand by an audience with various backgrounds, 
i.e. you need always to explain in simple English what you mean and the 
significance of what you are presenting.
2 Refer to yourself and your work in the third person throughout 
(i.e. not ‘our previous work’, but ‘the work of Black and White (1998)’).
3 Papers should be organised as follows:
i. Title: short and not too long
ii. Authors, affiliation and full contact details (email, fax, postal 
address). Make sure to provide your full contact postal details, including 
email addresses of all authors (which is a MUST).
iii. Keyword: list 5–7 keywords to appear after the ‘Abstract’; those that 
capture the main essence of the paper.
iv. If acronyms/abbreviations are used they MUST be spelled out and 
explained the first time they appear in the paper; then after that, you 
can use the acronyms/abbreviations, so the reader would know what each is 
referring to.
v. The main body of the text, suitably presented and organised. Organize 
the paper to have all the following headings: Start with an “Abstract”, 
then “Keywords”, then “Introduction”, then '”Related Work (to cover 
background, literature review, etc)”, then continue with other 
headings/sections, as suitable to your paper, then follow all that 
with “Future Trends” then “Conclusion”, and finally “References”. In the 
Abstract, you must explain clearly and explicitly the main contribution of 
your paper: what is original and/or different, and explain its 
significance to the field. All Sections and subsections/sub-sub sections 
should be numbered, starting with 'Introduction' (e.g. 1. Introduction……; 
2. Related Work; etc……..)
vi. Acknowledgements (if relevant)
vii. References in Harvard style(i.e. name, date)
4 References in the text should appear in the format "….see Black 
and White (1999)", or "in recent work (Black and White, 1999), it was 
proven…" References to Web sites should include the full Web address and 
the date on which it was last visited by the authors.
Citing References
• For papers authored by one or two authors: when citing such paper, 
you need to list all the authors’s surnames (i.e. one or two), followed by 
the date. 
• For papers authored by more than two authors: when citing, you 
need to have only the first author’s surname, followed by et al, followed 
by the date. 
• Please check the References list, to make sure that every 
reference listed is actually cited in the paper at least once, and that 
every cited reference in the paper's text appear in the 'References list' 
with its full details.
The References list 
• Should appear as an alphabetically sorted list (sorted by authors' 
surnames). Surnames of authors to appear first, followed by initials. 
After all names, the date should appear.
• Full details of all references must be given. Please make sure to 
provide all information as appropriate to the references listed (e.g. for 
conference papers, title, authors, conf. Full details where it's held, and 
page numbers, etc. For papers in journals or edited books, specify all 
details of the book/journal and articles, including page numbers, etc).
5 Notes to items in the text should appear as Endnotes placed before 
the References section, not Footnotes. Notes should be indicated using 
superscript numerals.
6 Figures, tables and graphs can be included. Colour figures will 
only be printed where the use of full colour is necessary to understand 
the picture. Each should be given a number and a title (e.g. Figure1: Demo 
of System X). Also, each should be cited in the text when describing it 
(e.g. (see Fig 1) or (see Table 1), etc). If based or taken from other 
sources (i.e. not yours), list the ref. details. Please note that authors 
are responsible for any clearance of copyright transfer issues, if any is 
required.
7 All figures, graphs and tables should have descriptive captions, 
and they must be cited in the main body of the paper.
8 All pages of the paper should be numbered.
9 Ensure that references are complete with full titles, dates and 
page numbers for each.
Should your paper be accepted for publication, we will need the source 
files from which to typeset your paper.  At that stage only, please supply 
text files (eg. Word, RTF, Tex, .txt), plus graphics files at 600 dpi 
minimum (eg. JPG, TIF, GIF). Graphics files embedded in documents such as 
Word are not acceptable. 
Please check the journal's web site for a sample paper formatted according 
to our requirements.
Copyright
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been published in the same or very similar form elsewhere, and is not 
under submission for publication elsewhere.
2 Should your paper be published in the journal, you will be asked 
to assign copyright to Troubador Publishing Ltd. Your rights as author 
will be retained in terms of the rights to reuse and veto third party 
publications.
3 It is the responsibility of the authors to seek written approval 
to reproduce material that has been published elsewhere. Permission from 
third parties to reuse material previously published must be obtained in 
writing, and a copy of the permission letter sent with your initial 
submission.
Proofs and offprints
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email.  It is the author’s responsibility to check the proofs carefully 
and return them within the time scale indicated.  Annotated proofs should 
be returned via fax, or a list of corrections sent via email. Revised 
proofs will only be supplied if there are a significant number of 
corrections to be made.
Authors receive one copy of the journal in which their article appears 
free of charge. The journal does not supply free offprints, but they can 
be ordered when your author proofs are returned. A scale of charges will 
be sent with proofs.